Legal

Forfront respects the personal privacy of individuals and is committed to ensuring that our clients are acting in line with EU, UK and US legislations and guidelines regarding privacy and electronic communications.

To ensure compliance, the e-shot™ system provides an automated opt-out link and includes full sender's company and contact details which clients cannot remove or disguise.

For those clients wishing to use a third party list provider we recommend you follow the advice of the Information Commisioner's Office which suggests the following: "If you are buying or renting a list from a broker, you will need to seek assurances about the basis on which the information was collected."

For reference we provide the following information for our clients and their subscribers.

UK and European Legislation

The Information Commissioner's Office, guidance on the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003

US Legislation - CAN-SPAM - What the Law Requires

Here's a rundown of the law's main provisions:

  • It bans false or misleading header information. Your email's "From," "To," and routing information - including the originating domain name and email address - must be accurate and identify the person who initiated the email.
  • It prohibits deceptive subject lines. The subject line cannot mislead the recipient about the contents or subject matter of the message.
  • It requires that your email give recipients an opt-out method. You must provide a return email address or another Internet-based response mechanism that allows a recipient to ask you not to send future email messages to that email address, and you must honor the requests. You may create a "menu" of choices to allow a recipient to opt out of certain types of messages, but you must include the option to end any commercial messages from the sender.
  • Any opt-out mechanism you offer must be able to process opt-out requests for at least 30 days after you send your commercial email. When you receive an opt-out request, the law gives you 10 business days to stop sending email to the requestor's email address. You cannot help another entity send email to that address, or have another entity send email on your behalf to that address. Finally, it's illegal for you to sell or transfer the email addresses of people who choose not to receive your email, even in the form of a mailing list, unless you transfer the addresses so another entity can comply with the law.
  • It requires that commercial email be identified as an advertisement and include the sender's valid physical postal address. Your message must contain clear and conspicuous notice that the message is an advertisement or solicitation and that the recipient can opt out of receiving more commercial email from you. It also must include your valid physical postal address.